This article is fromThe Chester Daily Times (Chester, PA) May 29, 1880 "ALMOST DROWNED - Yesterday evening, a boy about twelve years of age, named John Ferrigan, who lives on Concord Avenue, was in the creek at Gartside's wharf, bathing, and being in the water an hour, he took the cramps and would have drowned, only for the timely aid of a young man named Edward Smith, who jumped in and saved him."